Archive for February, 2004
Goodle
February 29th, 2004Oh, this is precious. If you only want to read good news online (well, fake good news), you might want to bookmark Goodle. The links don’t work, but it’s still a hoot (link via Google Blogoscoped)
Some Rollup Library Pages
February 29th, 2004Looking at the list of roll-up pages that have been created, I find a bunch that have library-related content:1) Digital Libraries2) LISFeeds (mine)3) Libraries and Technology4) Blogdriverswaltz.com (I wonder who creates this one)
Send and Reply to E-mail with Bloglines!!!!!
February 27th, 2004As if Bloglines couldn’t get any better, users now have the ability to send and reply to e-mail sent to and from addresses that they have set up in their aggregator. Probably the best news that I have heard this year. Have fun subscribing to those mailing lists!!!I’ve had my contact form send [...]
Aggregators That Think For You
February 26th, 2004Last year at our lunch break at MIT, Greg Notess and I were talking about aggregators. Greg mentioned that he wanted to use an aggregator that would not only provide content, but would give him only stuff that he wanted to read. Consider it readers advisory in the syndication world. Impossible, I [...]
CE Course on New Technologies for Librarians
February 26th, 2004Megan Fox, a librarian at Simmons College, is teaching a continuing education course entitled, Welcome to PDAs, WiFi, Blogs, RSS: A Taste of New Technologies for Every Librarian!Notice the overviews (PDF) for each learning module. Impressive.
Michael Fagan is Del.icio.us
February 25th, 2004Oooooooh!! Michael Fagan has a del.icio.us account. Subscribed!!!. Not much there so far, but I’m excited nonetheless.
Librarian.net Faq
February 24th, 2004Jessamyn has always done a good job in marketing herself. Today, she added an FAQ to her weblog. Perfect. I might just take her idea and create an FAQ of my own…
The Beginners Guide to Weblogs and RSS
February 23rd, 2004I will be facilitating an online workshop on weblogs and RSS for Learning Times, the company that put together the successful Online Library Conference late last year. The workshop will consist of four one-hour online sessions on consecutive Tuesdays in April. The description is as follows:“This hands-on training will explore a few of the [...]
“Dine Around” with the library bloggers!!
February 23rd, 2004Michael, Jenny, and I are going to be “hosting” a Dine-Around at CIL. The dinner will be held on Thursday, March 11th at Bistro du Coin at 6:00PM. So far, there is no-one on our guest list, but considering Jenny will be there, I suspect it will fill up quickly.We hope that you [...]
Is Pubsub an FOL?
February 23rd, 2004We use FOL around the office to stand for a “friend of the library”.Almost immediately after I posted about PubSub this morning, Bob Wyman (the CTO) commented with the following note:“Our publish/subscribe matching engine is general enough that we can do content-based filtering on just about any data feed or source. Given that you’re apparently [...]
ODP Feeds
February 23rd, 2004Way back when I was playing with Stapler, I created a feed for the OPD directory of library weblogs. The concept was neat. Be notified whenever something new within each folder gets added to the directory. A great way to keep up with new resources.Today, Del.icio.us led me to the XML Hub [...]
Fun Pubsub Tricks
February 23rd, 2004I gave up on Pubsub a month ago, but came across this post from Steve Hooker that points out a neat feature that I’m hoping to implement tonight.The advanced feature has many options including weblog name and referenced URLs. One very neat option is ability to have the search run in a low volume [...]
Minus 50 and counting
February 22nd, 2004I’m in the middle of purging my aggregator again. I’ve gotten rid of over 50 feeds that have underperformed (my rule of thumb is that if a feed does nothing for me in three weeks time, then I unsubscribe. I’ve been tardy in deleting feeds.) As of this writing, I am subscribed to [...]
Legislative Reference Bureau Feeds
February 21st, 2004The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, whose mission is to “to serve the Wisconsin Legislature and the public by providing nonpartisan legal, research, and library services.” is syndicating their publications.This is another great use of RSS in Government. State government, that is. The U.S. Federal government still hasn’t joined the RSS revolution, at least [...]
Gary Goes Full text?
February 20th, 2004Jessica thinks that Gary is starting to send out his weekly newsletter via RSS.Actually, he changed his RSS Feed to display the content in full text. While this may not last forever (Gary has a history of playing with his feed, trying out new things), I am savoring the moment by subscribing to his [...]
Rollup
February 19th, 2004First, we saw Feedpapers in action. Next came Blogdigger Groups. Tonight, I stumbled across Rollup, another community based aggregator that users can personalize. It uses Feedroll to display the feeds. I created a small page with 4 feeds and the layout looks nice. Compared to the other two mentioned, this [...]
It’s a Blog World After All
February 19th, 2004In an article from Law.com, Carolyn Elefant talks about lawyers, blogs, visibility, keeping current, and networking. From the article:“Blogs can serve as a “quick and dirty” Web site, help solos keep abreast of new developments, gain visibility on the Internet and notoriety in their respective fields, and make new contacts — all of which can [...]
Blogdigger Groups (beta)
February 18th, 2004I’ve been holding my hat on this for about a month. Finally, I can release my swelled up energy about Blogdigger Groups. First, for those that don’t know about Blogdigger (a weblog search engine), take a look if you get a chance. It brings back some interesting results that don’t come back [...]
My feedpaper
February 18th, 2004My Feedpaper is working!!! (Thanks Scott). More later…
FindForward
February 17th, 2004I started to play with FindForward tonight (it’s using Google API) and came across the Blogs/News search feature. I ran a search for my favorite keyword and came up with some interesting results. As far as features go, the xml button on the left of each result is very cool. Feedster has [...]
Neat Radio Aggregator Tool
February 17th, 2004For those that use the Radio aggregator, Matt has created a bookmarklet that will automatically toggle the checkmarks on or off. That was a big issue for me when I used Radio. Sometimes I would just want to check all the posts on the page and would have to go into properties, mark [...]
I heart my librarian
February 17th, 2004I’m going to have to buy this shirt for my wife…
Groowe
February 17th, 2004We all need reminders that Google is not the only search engine out there. That’s why I installed Groowe. Groowe is a toolbar that searches up to 17 search engines. You can easily switch engines while searching. Now, only if we can get then to install the LII search. (link via Search [...]
About LIS Blogsource
February 17th, 2004Due to some issues (well, just one issue) we had over at LIS Blogsource, Greg and I have written up a mission statement.One thought: If you want to keep a daily journal private, don’t publish it to the web!! Or at the very least, learn about robot.txt files. Don’t blame us if [...]
Feedpaper
February 16th, 2004Blake and I have been trying to figure out what to do with the right side of LISFeeds for a while. Blake came up with an incredible idea: A Daypop type page for the weblogs that we display on the site. Perfect. Now, how to build it?Today while in the shower (I [...]
We’re already moblogging…(well, not me)
February 16th, 2004In an article entitled, Let’s Use the Technology We Live, Rachel Singer Gordon asks:“Why aren’t more people moblogging (mobile web publishing) library conferences, for example? Instead of conference write-ups that association members receive in a printed paper months later, what about a cadre of mobloggers keeping us up-to-date and providing their impressions, photos, descriptions, [...]
Messages from the blogosphere
February 15th, 2004The sub-title of this article is “Web logging expands horizons of aspiring writers”, but I could only find one useful quote related to it. Rebecca Blood:“‘People who start to pay attention to what they write, and who care about really getting their point across always become better writers,’ Blood says. ‘And so some of [...]
Who subscribes?
February 15th, 2004Bloglines has released a new function that lets users find out who subscribes to any feed in the index. Here is a list of Bloglines users (whose feeds are public) that subscribe to Library Stuff. Now there are two ways to do this. Not a perfect system, but it’s a start.
CNET News Alerts (beta)
February 15th, 2004Gary mentions that CNET has launched an e-mail alert service. Users can get articles on any keyword, company name, or topic.After reading this, I immediately thought about syndication. Why not offer the same thing for RSS? Wired has been doing this for a few years now with their Cusomized Search Feeds (scroll down [...]
Tease - Zany and Fun Stuff for the Modern Librarian
February 14th, 2004It’s image week on Library Stuff!!Check out many more wearables at the Tease Catalog. Which reminds me, I have to order my RSS Shirt to receive it before CIL so I can wear it at the conference.